Hey, all. I’ve been giving it a lot of thought, and I’ve finally decided to bite the bullet and set up a Patreon site! You can find it here. I’ll be delaying posting to here, FA, and IB so that supporters can have early access, but rest assured, all posts will still end up here eventually (for now). Time to dig in and see how many more pies I can stick my thumbs into!
Category: News
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Biting the Bullet
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Commissions Re-Opening Soon (And Other Changes)
Well, I’ve been a lazy bum long enough, and it’s time to get busy again. I’ve posted some changes to my FA page regarding how I’m going to handle commissions going forward. For those not on FA, here’s a brief summary:
- I’m going to be more selective in the commissions I take and will only take 3–5 commissions at a time,
- Expedited commissions are going away,
- After selection, commissions will be done shortest-first and longest-last to prevent long delays for commissioners with short commissions, and
- My rates will remain the same at 1.1¢ / word.
While commissions aren’t officially open, yet, I’m just getting the word out that it’s coming in the next few days (I gotta quit watching Netflix and get back to doing something productive…and lucrative!).
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It Begins…
Today is the first sort-of day of my hiatus. There is still technically one commission I’m supposed to do, but the client isn’t responding. So, I’m calling it “sort-of hiatus.” It’s been an interesting start: Ebony got an eye inflammation, so I had the vet come out. It’s just as well—the herd was going to be due for their vaccinations in a couple of months anyway, so I went ahead and had it all done at once. The herd is all looking at me suspiciously now, but we’ve come a long way since last year, when they would have completely shunned me entirely. Now they’re just a bit leery of me getting close, but once I get started scratching them, they settle into it. Poor Ebony, though: her eye is nearly swollen shut with the inflammation, and she is super head-shy now. Putting drops in her eyes the next few days is not gonna be a lot of fun…
On to happier topics: I finally got the sprayer assembled (at no small expense: my thumb got smashed in the process), but at least it’s assembled now and ready to hook up to the tractor. I gotta mow this weekend. Holy crap, the grass got two feet tall in a couple of days! Glad I don’t grow that fast.
I gotta admit, now that I’m on hiatus, I don’t know what to do with myself. Truth be told, there’s not a lot I want to do with myself right now. There’s plenty I could be doing, but I think I’m gonna stick to watching South Park reruns and taking it easy…you know, like I was gonna do a month ago when I took that week off…heh. I do know one thing, though: I’m gonna have a beer!
Time to go relax. I’ll post on here, FA, and IB when I’m re-opening. If you want me to let you know personally, send me a message, and I’ll add you to the list.
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Commissions Closed
Hi, all. I know I haven’t posted on here in a long time, and I’m hoping to get better about that. The good news is, I’m down to five remaining commissions, and then I’ll be done. On that note, my commissions are currently closed. After having about a dozen of them hanging over my head for about a month, I need some R&R to recharge. I’ll be back for more, but for now, I need the time off!
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Exciting News: The Shane and Colton Paperback!
It’s taken me months to get around to it, but I finally bit the bullet and commissioned a cover for Shane and Colton. I got it today, and I’ve uploaded it to Amazon, proofed the book, set a price, and pushed Publish. Now I’m just waiting on Amazon to review it, and then I’ll be able to order a paperback copy of my book!
Oh, right…you guys can order one, too, if you want…
Heh, I’m just beside myself with excitement: holding my own book. It’s…surreal to think about; I can’t imagine what it’s going to actually be like. Anyway, I’m setting the price at $10.26. I would have set it at $5.13 (Ebony’s initials), but that wasn’t enough to cover the cost of printing, so I doubled it. I’d suggest that if you haven’t read it and want to, get the e-book: it’s $0.99. But if you really want that book experience, it can be yours (well…after they approve it, anyway…and after I get my copy…because, you know…mine!). Okay, okay, if y’all beat me to the “Buy It Now” button, I won’t hold it against you too much…but…
And here I thought tonight was the night I was actually going to go to bed…I have to work tomorrow (well, today, now). Better sign off. But I wanted to let that be known. I’m so excited!
Update: It’s available on Amazon here!
Another update: I got my copy! Looky!
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A Note on Short Stories
Well, I’ve got the Shane and Colton short story (maybe one of several over the next while) finished, and I’m about to publish it. I want to say before I do, though, that while I do some editing as I go, I have not gone through and re-read the story for consistency, grammar, etc. There may be some holes in the story or weird sentence fragments. If I decide to formally publish the stories, I will of course go through and do all of that editing. But it takes a long time and is tedious and boring, and I don’t want to do that stuff for my blog…at least not right now. I might at some point go back and do some of that later, but for now, I’m sending it out as-is. This applies to my other stories, too.
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2017-10-21
Just a quick note to say that I had planned to release a Shane and Colton chapter today, but I’ve had…distractions…and it’s taking longer than expected. I had thought to just publish it when I came to a stopping point, but to borrow the term from software development, I feel that the stories should be atomic—self-contained and occurring at a single point in time in the overall S&C universe—in order to avoid starting down a path that I can’t finish or introducing inconsistencies among storylines. As a result, I’m not going to publish the short story until I get it finished. It won’t be a chapter so much as a “side quest” that occurs sometime after the trial but before the epilogue in the main Shane and Colton story.
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2017-10-20
Off to my ex’s.
And this is where I leave you.
You should know the rest…Shane and Colton soon.
Burgers, beer, and flying wolves.
Shane can’t catch a break.I’m considering
Fifty-cent haikus for all.
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The Blog Entry That Used to Be a Page
Okay, a bit of stream-of-consciousness follows… It’ll explain it all at the end.
As I’ve mentioned in at least one post now, I self-published a couple of books on Amazon. They’re adult-themed; you have been warned. Most of my writing is adult-themed. I should check and see what the guidelines are on here; we’ll see how much I have to tone it back.
Anyway, links! Yes, links to books. And also links to other stuff I’ve set up to try to get the word out. I’ll try to keep this page updated as I publish more books.
My first (published) book, Human-Centaur Relations, is about a guy, Bryce, 19-ish, who lives in England with his grandpa. All Bryce’s life, his grandpa has told him stories about how the stories the Greeks told us about centaurs are all lies; centaurs were really gentle, kind, nurturing souls that humans libeled to compensate for how badly we treated them. So Bryce has quietly caught the infection his grandpa has: he desperately wants to meet the centaurs. Unlike his forbears for generations, Bryce is going to get lucky enough to do just that. And I think that’s where I’m going to leave you to read the book. There will be sex.
Human-Centaur Relations on Amazon
My second published book is called Shane and Colton. I haven’t said it on here before, but I’ll say it now; I’m a furry. No, that doesn’t mean I’m covered in hair (well, there is that, too…); it means that I’m an anthropomorphic animal enthusiast. For those who still don’t know what I mean, think Bambi: he’s a talking animal who can make facial expressions. He’s a form of anthropomorphic character. Now, for giggles, have him walk upright but still have back hooves and hands on his forelimbs. Now you’re getting in the realm of what I’m talking about. Consider Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde from Zootopia. There ya go.
That little aside aside, Shane and Colton is about Shane, an anthropomorphic horse, and Colton, an anthropomorphic cougar. Shane is an attorney, and Colton is his favorite prostitute. In their world, spit handshakes are legally binding (and don’t ask me how, but somehow enforced by magic—just go with it; it’s fun!), and so when Colton tries to get the best of Shane during a spit handshake and fails epically, it ends up with Colton moving in with Shane…as his slave. That turns out to be fortuitous because Colton knows something about a case Shane is working on that will help convict the guilty and free the innocent. That’s where I leave you; there will be sex. I think that should be my catch-phrase or something: “And that’s where I leave you; there will be sex.” But that’s a lot of typing, and even though I type 100 WPM, give or take, it’s still a lot of typing. Maybe I’ll abbreviate it to “ATWILY;TWBS”. Know what? I like that. If I can remember it, I’m using it.
Anyway, a link: Shane and Colton on Amazon
As a bit of other news, I’ve commissioned a book cover for Shane and Colton, and depending on how that goes, I’m planning to publish it in paperback. I just think it’d be awesome to actually have a copy of my own book in my hand. Just makes it feel…so much more real, you know?
Update 2017-11-24: The paperback version is finally here and available from Amazon: Shane and Colton (Paperback)
What else…
Ah, yes, links to things.
More news, more news…I’ve applied to publish on Apple and gotten approved, but I don’t want to use my legal name, so I’m working through that. Might try for Barnes and Noble, too. We’ll see.
Know what? The engineer in me can’t stand all this freeform stuff. This “page” content is getting moved to a blog article, and then I’ll put up a new page with nice, clean link information.
Scatterbrained Ramblings 